Welcome to the Truth of a Comfort Show.

Today's guest is James Corbett of The Corbett Report.

He's a documentary filmmaker, video creator, interviewer, article writer, and even ran his own course.

He is, of course, one of the legends in the alternative media.

And I'm very pleased to have him here to talk about

a documentary he did. I'm not sure if it was a year or months ago about the concept of

opium, and I'm very pleased to have you here. How are you doing, James? I'm doing all right. Thank

you for having me back on. It's a pleasure to talk to you again. So the word

hopium, people might be hearing the word opium, which I'm not. So could you just clarify

the concept of hopium in sort of the context you did your documentary in? Sure. I do happen to.

So hopium, of course, is a play on opium. And the idea here is that opium

is a chemical substance that will provide the chemical simulacrum of pleasure via the opioid receptors

in the brain and what have you.

The physiogny of that goes together so that one feels that one is having a pleasurable

experience, even though it is a synthetic chemical experience that does wear off and leaves

some horrible side effects.

And I think the parallel here is that we can see the same process taking place not only in the political world.

I think it happens in a lot of aspects of our lives, but certainly most, I think most

obviously in this day, in this era, in the political realm, where people become addicted to

not hope, which I don't want to denigrate. And I do go out of my way to make that point

in my brief history of opium, that I'm not denigrating hope itself. I think hope is an essential

and important ingredient to the human spirit that helps us, propels us forward. But hopium

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